Industrial Waste

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Futala lake pollution, Nagpur, Maharashtra, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …

Do a Ganga on the Cauvery and fill in the GAP

Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS State Planning Commission member argues it will be a cheaper and more effective way to check pollution load AMID growing concerns over the pollution of River Cauvery, member of the State Planning Commission and former Additional Chief Secretary to the Tamil Nadu government Sitharam Gurumurthi has …

Water pollution in Punjab:Baba Seechewal offers a solution

THE untreated sewerage water of the cities is a big problem in Punjab with its stink making life a hell for the urbanites. With no treatment facilities at most of the places, water flows through open nullahs and pollute the water bodies, including rivulets, water streams and even the rivers. …

Pollution board charts out strategies for zero discharge of waste into Chenna

TANNERIES in and around Chennai are dumping about 3,000 kilolitres of waste per day into the city's water- ways and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board is working out strate- gies to make the units adhere to zero discharge, according to R Ramachan- dran, member secretary, TNPCB. At a seminar …

World Bank comes calling to save maili Ganga

Biswajeet Banerjee | Lucknow With several crore rupees going down the drain and the Ganga still remaining

Drug unit asked to shift effluent

Satish Shile, Bangalore, Feb 18, DH News Service: The manufacturing unit of a major pharmaceutical company located at Virgonagar in Bangalore has violated the norms for scientific disposal of effluent. The manufacturing unit of Cipla has stored liquid waste in a sump on its premises, close to Yellamma Lake. It …

The green warrior

SONALEE M The indefatigable Subhas Datta has helped Howrah combat its environmental blues Subhas Datta, 60, has spent a lifetime fighting environment battles. Born on August 26, 1949, in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, Datta's parents migrated to Howrah, Kolkata's twin city, the following year. Facing adversity early in life …

BSL pulled up on pollution front

DHENKANAL: The Rehabilitation and Peripheral Development Advisory Committee (RPDAC) yesterday rejected the request of Bhusan Steel Limited (BSL) to construct an ash pond in Nimidha village and asked it to go for afforestation around BSL to check pollution. The RPDAC met to discuss rehabilitation and resettlement (R& R) proposals of …

Toxic waste being dumped at discarded Bainguinim site

The Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) may have virtually abandoned the proposed garbage treatment plant at Bainguinim, but truckloads of highly toxic industrial waste and domestic garbage are clandestinely being dumped by miscreants at the site. After CCP consultant Dr Joe D

Industrial waste polluting handpumps, say villagers

Waste liquid material from chemical and pesticide factories in Mandhor village, close to the city, has started polluting the village handpumps. A few villagers met officials of the Haryana pollution Control Board at Panchayat Bhawan today. The chairman of the board addressed a meeting of panches and sarpanches on the …

Report shows Yamunas dirty faece

River Filled With Excreta, Devoid Of Oxygen: Pollution Control Board Survey New Delhi: We all know Yamuna water is not fit for bathing, let alone drinking. But the latest report from the Central Pollution Control Board, sure to raise a stink before the Commonwealth Games in the capital, says the …

HC seeks report on Budha Nullah

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today asked the Punjab Pollution Control Board to prepare a detailed report on level of pollution in Budha Nullah. The Bench, comprising Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice Jasbir Singh, asked the Board to compare the present level with the one at the time …

Pharma units suspected in Yeleru canal pollution

Visakhapatnam , Jan. 12: Officials and environmentalists suspect that pharmaceutical units might have dumped pollutants in Yeleru canal leading to the death of fish in large quantities. Local people and media personnel on a visit to canal area, soon after the news spread out that the canal water was poisoned, …

400m gallons of industrial waste discharged into sea

ISLAMABAD: Over 400 million gallons of untreated industrial waste are being discharged into the sea daily and the city district government of Karachi is finding it difficult to handle the situation because of lack of funds, Environment Minister Hameed Ullah Jan informed the National Assembly during a question-hour on Monday. …

Winged visitors give polluted wetland a miss

Industrial pollutants flowing down Sutlej from Himachal Pradesh have jeopardised the lives of thousands of winged visitors to the Nangal national wetland. Residents complain of the colour of the river water, which has changed to black, near Brahmla Khad. Even the area contractor for fishing, Vijay Kumar, accepted that the …

Maha tells power cos to use recycled drain water

Sanjay Jog / Mumbai December 28, 2009, 0:57 IST The Maharashtra government, in a bid to overcome burgeoning water shortage, has decided to use treated drainage water in all power projects being developed by the state-run MahaGenco and the private sector. Power developers have been asked to enter into an …

Family tree of Bhopal gas disaster

THE Bhopal gas disaster made headlines 25 years ago as the world

World Bank fund for Ganga River Authority

Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The World Bank on Wednesday announced a soft loan of $one billion in the next 5 to 7 years for the recently launched National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) to clean and conserve the river. The support would include substantial financing over several phases as well …

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